Combined printing-machine for text and intaglio fine printing.



A. BURGERT. COMBINED PRINTINGMAOHINE FOR TEXT AND INTAGLIO FINE PRINTING.

APPLICATION FILED JUL! 11, 1013.

1,105,482. Patented July 28, 1914.

UNITED STATES PATEN'l OFFICE.

AUGUST BURGERT, OF M'ULHAUSEN, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO ELSASSISCHE MASCHINENBAU-GESELLSCHAFT, 0E MULHAUSEN, GERMANY.

COMBINED PRINTING-MACHINE FOR TEXT AND INTAGLIO FINE PRINTING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J lily 28, 1914.

Application flledJuly 17, 1913. Serial No. 779,564.

To all whomit may cow-era Be it known that 1-, Ai'oifsr BUnGI-lur, a subject of the German Ihnperonresiding at Miilhausen, in the Province of Alsace- Lorraine, Germany, have invented a' new and useful Improvement in Combined Printing-Machines for Text and hitagho Fine Printing, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates to an improvement ineombined intaglio printing together with ordinary relief printing machines.

In contradistinction to machines for text and illustration printing for relief printing, the fine and counter fn'iutinc machine for intaglio printing, as it has hitherto been constructed is composed of two practically independent machines, which are rigidly connected to one another by means of common supports or by being screwed together. This mode of construction especially applies to the so called Mertens intaglio printing machines as hitherto produced. The paper web was hitherto arranged to pass through the mechanisms thus interconnected for intaglio rinting and was then provided with text re ief printing away from the two intaglio printing machines and cut and folded.

The object of my present invention is a composite fine and counter printing mechanism for intaglio printing so combined with a rotary relief printing machine that the text printing mechanism (preferably provided with cutting and folding: apparatus) is interpolated between the fine printing mechanism and the'countcr printing mechanism of the intaglio printing machine.

Instead of building the text. relief printing machine between two intaglio printing machines adapted to print on one side only, therecan of course be provided on each side of the relief printing machine also a tine and counter printing mechanism for intag- \li o printing or for multiple color intaglio printing.

7 The advantages of an arrangement of this kind are numerous. Especially I they mention: 1. There is a very considerable shortening of the working length of the paper web. 2. The carrying of the paper web along the floor between he intaglio and the relief printing mechanism is avoided. 3. There isa greatly improved oversight of the operation because from the folding apparatus both the intaglio' and the relief printing mechanisms can be watched during the printing. 4. There is a shortening of the space required by the machines. 5cA considerable simplification of the. driving. By thus constructing the fine and counter printing mechanism or int-aglio and relief printing there created a special type of machine which is new of its 'kind and neither known hitherto nor constructed in this manner. Through the organic union of the machines into a unitary structure, a new machine is produced which operates more compactly. firmly and surely and affords the mos exact register, I

As is well known hithertointaglio printin, machines have been coupled to the relief printing machines by means of special cleviccs. In such couplings, there may easily occur a mistake of the mounter so that either the frames of the intaglio printing mechanism or of the rotary machine were not placed mathematically exactly levelyind at the same angle or were badly foundationed. lCvcn the very slightest errors of this kind produce irregularities often very difiieultto overcome (such as the formation of folds,

tearing of the paper web and so forth). A further occasion of disturbances occur through the failure of one of the two motors rcqifisitc. because hitherto in most cases a spe ial motor has been necessary for the in tagilio printing work and another forthe driyiug of the relief printing machine. The

new machine on the other hand works with single motor. Finally, the advantage above stated of more compact construction enables a much smaller space to be utilized.

The invention is illustrated diagrammatically in the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 shows an elevation and Fig. 2 a

plan view oi the new machine.

In these figures A and B denote the suppoi-tum legs on which are supported intaglio printing cylinders. C and D, E and F the elastic intermediate rolls. G and H the pressure cylinders, J, K and L the cutting OPEX'utlOD of the machine is briefly as folloy'vsp'lhe pa; er webpasses from S betweentl'ie rolls {C over'the various guide rolls the intgirlie pripting mach'infe B, t e intag io printing orm Bylindc ur Dgnd the eiastie intermediate roll .4 From 't-hisfpoint it passes into the relief printing rotary machine, then partially around-the relief printing cylinders P and Q and tie thelcnttiiig apparatus J, K, L and y is: then" piled upon-i dine table Nafter passinfivthrou h'the meehixliism M. f lint claim is: In an rotsry' printing machine; 'sfframe comprising supporting legn and parallel up- 1 perarnis, p web supply roll supported von the parallel arms adjacent one end thereof, in taglio printing cylinders operating 'adjacent the respective-ends of the frame, and imprescylinders cooperating therewith, cutting means supported nnder the series of reliefprinting cylinders 'fer severing the web into sheets, and means for operating the cylinders, whereby the printing cylinders print 30 on both sidesof the web. 4

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

v I AUGUST BURGERT Vitnesses:

.tlno. GIFFORD,

AMAND Bustier. 

